{"product_id":"9781441161406","title":"Emerson's English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor","description":"\u003ch1\u003eEmerson's English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDavid LaRocca\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ American \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eMetaphors are ubiquitous and yet-or, for that very reason-go largely unseen. We are all variously susceptible to a blindness or blurry vision of metaphors; yet even when they are seen clearly, we are left to situate the ambiguities, conflations and contradictions they regularly present-logically, aesthetically and morally.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid LaRocca's book serves as a set of 'reminders' of certain features of the natural history of our language-especially the tropes that permeate and define it. As part of his investigation, LaRocca turns to Ralph Waldo Emerson's only book on a single topic, \u003ci\u003eEnglish Traits\u003c\/i\u003e (1856), which teems with genealogical and generative metaphors-blood, birth, plants, parents, family, names and race.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the first book-length study of \u003ci\u003eEnglish Traits\u003c\/i\u003e in over half a century, LaRocca considers the presence of metaphors in Emerson's fertile text-a unique work in his expansive corpus, and one that is regularly overlooked. As metaphors are encountered in Emerson's book, and drawn from a long history of usage in work by others, a reader may realize (or remember) what is inherent and encoded in our language, but rarely seen: how metaphors circulate in speech and through texts to become the lifeblood of thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDavid LaRocca\u003c\/b\u003e (Ph.D., Vanderbilt) is Writer-in-Residence in the F. L. Allen Room at the New York Public Library and Fellow at the Moving Picture Institute in New York. Author of \u003ci\u003eOn Emerson\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), editor of Stanley Cavell's \u003ci\u003eEmerson's Transcendental Etudes\u003c\/i\u003e (2003) and \u003ci\u003eEstimating Emerson: An Anthology of Criticism from Carlyle to Cavell\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), he was Harvard's Sinclair Kennedy Traveling Fellow in the United Kingdom, and consultant to the American Museum of Natural History, during the composition of this book.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e26 September 2013\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781441161406\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e408\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e19.2\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51331374514316,"sku":"9781441161406","price":40.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_9708aa8e-334f-4ef9-909f-647c2054dec1.jpg?v=1783596189","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781441161406","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}